Thaddeus Holownia was born in Bury Saint Edmunds, England, in 1949. He immigrated to Canada five years later. In 1972, he received a B.A. in Communications and Fine Arts from the University of Windsor. Holownia has dedicated most of his career to the use of large-format view-cameras, working with 8x10", 7x17", 11x14" and 12x20" in both black & white and colour. He has made extensive bodies of work in North America and Europe, though the majority of his work centres around Eastern Canada and the North Eastern United States.
Since 1977, he has been a faculty member at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. He is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Fine Arts.
Holownia's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions. He was featured in solo shows at the Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City), McCord Museum (Montreal, PQ), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax NS), the Owens Art Gallery (Sackville NB), the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina SK), the Confederation Art Gallery (Charlottetown), the Jane Corkin Gallery (Toronto ON), and the Art Gallery of Hamilton, McMichael Canadian Collection, (Kleinburg, ON) among others. His photographs have been included in many group exhibitions including "Monet's Legacy: Series, Order and Obsession" (Hamburger Kunsthalle), "Before the Land, Behind the Camera" (Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography), "The Landscape: Eight Canadian Photographers" (McMichael Canadian Collection), "Exposure" (The Art Gallery of Ontario), and "Photo Perspectives" (Presentation House, Vancouver).
Photographic prints and bookworks by Thaddeus Holownia are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, (Ottawa), Yale University (New Haven), the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston Texas), the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (Ottawa), and many other corporate, public and private collections.
Thaddeus Holownia has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Royal Canadian Academy for the Arts, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Crake Foundation and the Marjorie Young Bell Research Foundation. A dedicated teacher he has been a four-time recipient of the Mount Allison Paul Paré Award for Excellence and was awarded the Paul Paré Medal in 1998 for excellence in Teaching, Research/Creative Activity and community service. In 2001, Holownia was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship by the Fulbright Foundation of Washington, DC, and in 2003 he received the Strathbutler Award from the Sheila Hugh McKay Foundation of Rothesay, New Brunswick.
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| SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
| Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, NS | |
| American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York City, NY | |
| Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON | |
| Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS | |
| BCF LLP, Montréal, QC | |
| Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB | |
| Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON | |
| Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, QC | |
| Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON | |
| Canadian Wildlife Service, Sackville, NB | |
| Columbia University, New York, NY | |
| Imperial Oil Art Collection, Toronto, ON | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON | |
| New Brunswick Art Bank, Fredericton, NB | |
| Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON | |
| Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB | |
| Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, SK | |
| Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC | |
| Prudential Insurance Company of America, New York, NY | |
| Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, ON | |
| Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, NL | |
| Thoreau Institute, Lincoln, MA | |
| Xerox Collection of Art, Toronto, ON | |
| Yale University Art of the Book Collection, New Haven, CN |
Thaddeus Holownia is represented by Collins Lefebvre Stoneberger Fine Art (Montréal, QC), The Corkin Gallery (Toronto), and the Peter Buckland Gallery (St. John, New Brunswick).
